Okay, what you've written seems to vary from system to system it seems.

What Roger posted in reply to my original message is indeed correct, that is to 
say if I use one of my other Windows 7 machines - either my Netbook or my HP 
Notebook following Roger's suggestions - I get both hardware and adapter 
settings for the adapter, in the case of the HP there are 15 different tabs 
running from left to right across the top of the screen for different 
category's.

Lynne's suggestion is correct as well, works on both my EEEPC and my HP 
Notebook but not on the new Windows 7-64 Desktop, adapter settings are not 
present in "Windows And Sharing" at all!

I went into properties of the Network adapter as instructed by Roger and there 
- as with the HP - are a whole series of tabs from left to right across the top 
of the screen, 12 in all but none talk about setting up IP Addresses, now I'm 
awake I'll have another look to see if I can find out what's going on.

I wonder whether the manufacturer of Network adapter has a lot to do with this, 
for example I'm using the built-in Intel network adapter as came with my Mother 
Board, its got a whole heap of stuff listed in its properties I've never seen 
before such as "Master/slave" setup etc.


On 23/04/2012, at 12:22 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote:

> Hello everybody
> 
> OK, I tried the suggestion which Roger pasted into his message following 
> Dane's question. If I go to the device manager and right-click the network 
> adapter whose properties I want to change, it gives me the hardware 
> properties rather than the network configuration properties.
> 
> So, I tried doing it the easy way; go to Control Panel>Network and Sharing 
> Center>Change Adapter Settings>Properties>IP4 Properties. This brings up a 
> screen similar to the old Windows XP dialogue. However, when I try to change 
> the IP4 properties to reflect the need for a static IP and DNS configuration, 
> I get silly networking errors even though the configuration is absolutely 
> correct. Of course, this works fine when I test it on a virtual Windows XP 
> machine; so I know for a fact that the IP4 configuration is valid.
> 
> Does anybody else happen to have run into a situation similar to the above? 
> It's really silly; and I'm guessing that it's a problem with Windows 7 itself 
> rather than with the IP4 configuration data which, as I've already stated, is 
> perfectly valid.
> 
> Lynne
> 
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